Square Affair by Timmothy J.Holt Review!

About the Book 

Product Details

Paperback: 244 pages

Publisher: Christine F.\Anderson#Publishing & Media; First Edition edition (January 14, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0692350640

ISBN-13: 978-0692350645

   

In the small Midwestern town of Dewers, among the turmoil of the 1960s, the conversations of five men leads to sexual exploration, which takes them and the town on a journey through good and evil that will change the entire community and confirm the town’s resolve to survive. 

Arrested on charges of public indecency for anonymous sex in the courthouse restroom, five men reveal complex, unknown, and differing motivations for their actions. As they face not only criminal prosecution, but also the tribunal of Dewers, two questions are on their minds: Who am I, and is anyone out there like me? 

Clara May and Frieda, guardians of Dewers gossip, narrate Square Affair, where the reader becomes a citizen of Dewers: walking the square, in a bar drinking, trick-or-treating, in a store buying a hat, or in a car gossiping. 

About the Author   

Timm spent his childhood in rural Illinois, his early adult life in Chicago, and has recently returned to Chicago after a long absence. He received a BA degree in sociology from Ill Wesleyan Univ., a MPA from Roosevelt Univ., and a MD from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. He is a retired physician with a specialty in geriatrics. He has numerous articles published in medical and trade journals, as well as, a book for the Catholic Health Association on integrating long term care services. His poetry can be found in an array of literary journals. As a playwright, Obsession, Teddy's Nightmare, and Aurora Borealis have been produced at the Marigny Community Theater in New Orleans. When he is not writing, Timm likes to travel, hang out with his partner, his 2 children, his dog Miss Otis, and his cat Goldie.

My Thoughts

In the 1960's, being gay was just not talked about. It existed but not really recognized. Square Affair refers to five men who are arrested for having annoymous sex in the Courthouse bathrooms. They never thought they would be caught but they were and now have to face the consequences.

The story is narrated by Clara May and her friend Frieda, the town gossips. These ladies know everything that goes on in town. Clara May had her suspicions but kept it to herself. Clara May is an individual who is very progressive for her age and the era. Because of this a few of the men are very comfortable talking to her. I really liked her character.

The arrest of these five men and the consequences open up buried secrets that a few of them have harbored for a very long time. Are they all gay, have they grown accustomed to being gay and keep it secret, are they ready to "come out", choose to end their marriages, or do they keep their marriage together just because they feel it the right thing to do?  These are questions that are eventually touched upon as the author tells the story. We come to know the wives of a few of the men, their feelings and emotions are put to the test as the trial of the men is ready to begin. 

I found this story to be very well written and true to how it was back in the 60's. 50+ years later, being gay is finally being accepted by most people. Most states now allow gay marriage, actually my daughter married her significant other just last week in Florida. We have come a long way in those years and it is a big step that has been a long time coming. The author really delved into the emotions that all people in this small community have and how the arrest and subsequent trial has affected them.I really enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it.

I received a copy of this book for review from The Cadence Group and was not monetarily compensated for my thoughts.

A Ghostly Undertaking by Tonya Kappes Review!

From USA Today bestselling author Tonya Kappes comes a brand new hilarious and fun paranormal mystery series about Emma Lee Raines, a funeral home director who can suddenly see dead people!

About the Book

Series: Ghostly Southern Mysteries (Book 1)

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Witness; Reissue edition (February 24, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0062374648

ISBN-13: 978-0062374646

A funeral, a ghost, a murder . . . it’s all in a day’s work for Emma Lee Raines . . .

Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she’s suffering from “funeral trauma.” It’s trauma all right, because the not so dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne—innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee’s granny—she’s adamant that she didn’t just fall down those stairs. She was pushed.

Ruthie has no idea who wanted her pushing up daisies. All she knows is that she can’t cross over until the matter is laid to eternal rest. In the land of the living, Emma Lee’s high-school crush, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, isn’t ready to rule out foul play. Granny Raines, the widow of Ruthie’s ex-husband and co-owner of the Sleepy Hollow Inn, is the prime suspect. Now Emma Lee is stuck playing detective or risk being haunted forever.

About the Author

TONYA KAPPES has written more than fifteen novels and four novellas, all of which have graced numerous bestseller lists including USA Today. Best known for stories charged with emotion and humor and filled with flawed characters, her novels have garnered reader praise and glowing critical reviews. She lives with her husband, two very spoiled schnauzers, and one ex-stray cat in northern Kentucky. Now that her boys are teenagers, Tonya writes full-time but can be found at all of her guys’ high school games with a pencil and paper in hand.

My Thoughts

What a fun book this was!  Emma Lee Raines can see dead people, but only people who have been murdered, like the town gossip Ruthie Sue Payne. Ruthie appears to Emma Lee after she gets hit in the head. She is fine, except that she keeps seeing Ruthie everywhere she goes and when Ruthie tries to convince her she was pushed down the stairs and did not fall, Emma Lee has a hard time believing this. After a lot of convincing, she finally agrees to see what she can find out. Her investigation points the blame on her own grandmother, which she is having a hard time believing. WIth the help of Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, she unveils what happened to Ruthie Sue.

I loved this heroine, fiesty and funny, I found her character to be very likable. I read the book in a short amount of time and had more than a few giggles as the story went on. Ruthie Sue is a hoot!! Will she be able to cross over to the other side? I am not going to tell you that! You will just have to read this book for your self. A perfect balance of mystery, suspense and humor that keeps the reader turning the pages.I look forward to reading the next in the series, A Ghostly Grave. 

I received a copy of the book for review and was not monetarily compensated for said review.

Cotton FBI Series Spotlight!

A new legend is born! COTTON FBI is a remake of a world famous cult series with more than one billion copies sold!!

COLLECTION 1 (Feb. 23)

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EPISODE 1: THE BEGINNING.
New York City. A Chinese woman was brutally murdered and Jeremiah Cotton, a young
cop with the NYPD, just can't let go. He suspects that the woman is the victim of a serial
killer, but no one believes him and he is taken off the case. While carrying out an
unauthorized investigation, Cotton encounters a division of the FBI whose existence no
one knows about: the "G-Team." Stubborn and persistent, Cotton asks uncomfortable
questions about the mysterious unit - and runs afoul of Special Agent Philippa "Phil"
Decker in the process. When he narrowly escapes an attempt on his life, Cotton realizes
that this is no ordinary killer hunt and the hotter the case is getting, the more determined
he is to stay involved ...

EPISODE 2: COUNTDOWN.
12:04 AM, New York. An American Airlines flight making its approach to landing. The
descent is stopped and the aircraft begins to circle over Manhattan as if it were guided by
an invisible hand. - 1:00 AM, G-Team HQ. Agents Jeremiah Cotton and Philippa Decker
learn that terrorists have hacked the onboard systems and taken control of the airplane.
They are demanding the release of Seif al-Bakkay, a high-level terrorist. The agents have
only six hours remaining to find the perpetrators before the aircraft over Manhattan runs
out of fuel ...

EPISODE 3: HIDDEN SHADOWS.
New York. Hundreds of commuters just barely escape with their lives when an attack on
the George Washington Bridge fails. The attempt falls in line with a chain of acts of
sabotage that occurred at famous landmarks in the past few weeks. Obviously, someone
is targeting prominent structures in New York. What are the perpetrator's objectives?
Agents Jeremiah Cotton and Philippa Decker are facing a mystery. Until there is another
attack. Right before their eyes. Nearly 1,000 feet above Manhattan - on the Empire State
Building ...

EPISODE 4: WITNESS PROTECTION.
A well-dressed man is found dead, floating in a New York harbor basin. The drowned
man originally hailed from a small town in Alabama and, according to local authorities,
died six years ago. The FBI gets involved. Agents Cotton and Decker soon realize that
there are more cases like this: affluent criminals who were living under false names and
then were murdered.

These very names also appear on the list of a witness protection program and Cotton
receives a visit from two colleagues who won't tolerate any further investigation. But a
man like Cotton doesn't buckle under pressure ... 

COLLECTION 2 (March 16)
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EPISODE 5: THE INFECTION.
The man with the inflamed stab wound in the Bedford specialty clinic is no ordinary
patient. His name is Jeremiah Cotton, agent of the FBI, and he thwarted a biological
weapon attack. Because he might be carrying the pathogen himself, he cannot leave the
hospital grounds. Then one of the other patients dies under peculiar circumstances.
Cotton starts to investigate - looked over by personnel as just a hobby detective and
viewed with suspicion by hospital management. But then there is an attempt on Cotton's
life and things get serious - and personal ...

EPISODE 6: BONY BEACH.
Human bones were uncovered by a winter storm on one of Chappaquiddick's beaches.
While examining the remains the police found a dozen more buried in the sand. Philippa
Decker and Jeremiah Cotton from the FBI's G-Team are on the scene to investigate. They
are supported by Dr. Connors, a retired forensic doctor from homicide. For a long time he
had been convinced that there is a serial killer active on the island, but no one ever
believed him. He asks the two agents to help him find the killer. Just as a blizzard blows
over the island, a dramatic showdown takes place ..

EPISODE 7: THE KUMO CARTELL.
John Saito, an American business man of Japanese descent, lies in his penthouse. He was
murdered. All he had on was a condom. He had two Asian ciphers scrawled on his
forehead which together form the word ?kumo' - the spider. It seems that the man was
killed by some poison during sex games. Saito is not the first person to be killed in this
manner. The G-Team is called upon to help solve the murders. Special Agent Jerry
Cotton and Philippa Decker first suspect the Yakuza, or a similar organized crime gang,
to be responsible for the killings. However, the true meanings of the homicides go far
deeper. The traces lead to a network of dirty business and to a woman who is more
dangerous than a Spider ... and deadlier. 

COLLECTION 3 (April 13)
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EPISODE 8: KILLER APPS.
Four mysterious mass murders. All of them occurring at more or less the same time in
New York. The victims: a middle-class family, a wedding party, a school group, and a
police station task force. The culprits: people with no previous criminal record. The GTeam
is on the case. Agent Cotton has been looking for a common thread and finds an
ambiguous lead: Just before every crime, the perpetrators activated the same app on their
smartphones. One evening, Cotton and Philippa Decker meet by chance in a restaurant.
Both have been stood up by their respective dates, and they decide to make the best of it
and have dinner together. Cotton shows his colleague an app that had just installed itself
on his smartphone. Decker tries out the app. And then she pulls out her weapon and aims
it at Cotton as if in a trance ...

EPISODE 9: DEADLY GAMES.
The star gamer from Korea, Park Dae-Young, arrived in New York to participate in an Esports
competition. The prize money is $600,000. A few hours after his arrival he is dead;
and this despite having had body guards present. Cotton and Decker from the G-Team
take over the case. There are certain indications that team members, who came with Park,
may be involved in his death. It is suspected that they did so out of jealousy, and that
Park's clan had participated in tourneys outside the regular "Counterstrike? gaming
schedule, in which huge sums of money were involved. It seems evident that not only
Park himself, but also the team members and the management too, had been involved in a
betting scam. Something like this goes well only so long as all the members cooperate.

EPISODE 10: PROJECT OMEGA.
Once a year, the president holds a banquet for members of the military, police forces, and
the Secret Service who have rendered outstanding service to the nation. This year,
Special Agents Jeremiah Cotton and Philippa Decker have been invited for the first time.
Cotton feels out of place at the party among all the "big shots.? But then a slightly older
but still quite attractive woman approaches him. Joan Fallon is being blackmailed by a
stranger. Not for money, but for the state secrets guarded by her husband - the White
House Chief of Staff. Joan has a dark past that not even her husband knows: In her youth,
she acted in adult films. And it seems that the videotapes weren't all destroyed. Cotton
discusses the problem with Mr. High, the head of the G-Team. A White House scandal
and national security are at stake. So Cotton and his attractive partner Philippa start an
undercover investigation into New York's porn scene ... 

COLLECTION 4 (May 11)
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EPISODE 11: DEATH ON ORDER.
When Peter Warren opened the door and saw a pizza delivery man standing on his porch,
he thought that it was a mix-up; he hadn't ordered a pizza that evening. Then, instead of a
pizza, the man pulled a taser out of the insulated transport box. The last thing Warren saw
were drill bits, needles, and surgical instruments ... Over the period of few months,
several people fell victim to a sadistic crime using this or similar methods. Oddly, they
weren't killed right away, but fell into comas due to brain injuries and then died later on.
The victims had nothing in common, except for one thing: They were all organ donors,
and the last two victims had rare genetic profiles. A false set of documents is prepared for
Cotton by the team's experts, making him look like the perfect organ donor. They insert it
into the national databank of the country's healthcare system. At the home address listed
in these documents, Cotton awaits the killer ...

EPISODE 12: SURVIVAL.
There's a new government training program intended to get FBI agents into top shape.
Equipped with nothing but their wits and an emergency backpack, the participants will be
dropped in the vast forests of the northeastern United States. There, they will have to
survive a week in the wilderness. Philippa Decker, Zeerookah, and Steve Dillagio are
selected as the first group from the New York division. The day before the program
begins, Dillagio suddenly calls in sick. Agent Cotton steps in at the last minute as his
replacement. What starts out as a relatively carefree expedition turns into a nightmare for
the three FBI agents. The first night, they're woken up by the sounds of gunfire. Then
they discover the bodies of another team of agents. By then, it's clear to Cotton and the
others that someone is using the survival program to carry out a treacherous plan. And
that they have been transformed from hunters into the hunted and must fight for their
survival.

EPISODE 13: WHISTLE BLOWER.
After a lengthy investigation, Sandy Overmeyer, a young journalist, manages to get an
interview with a powerful underworld boss, known and feared for his brutality. Roberto
Gonzalez, who calls himself Bobby Gold, shows her one of his hideouts, where drugs are
being packaged - by children. Upset, Sandy breaks one of the unwritten laws of
journalism: Never reveal a source. FBI agents storm Gold's hideout. The operation
doesn't go as planned, and Bobby Gold's innocent little brother Esteban gets shot. The
drug lord manages to evade arrest. Now Sandy is in grave danger. Cotton tries to get her
to safety, but he arrives too late. He realizes that he and his team have made a terrible
mistake. Together with his former colleague from the NYPD, Cotton goes undercover to
try to make amends, no matter who gets hurt along the way ..
.
EPISODE 14: CIVIL WAR.
A ruthless massacre. Thick clouds of gunsmoke stinging your eyes. Musket fire. In the
small town of Perryville, Kentucky, the Northern and Confederate armies have been pitted against each other. Smoke engulfs the hills. Wherever you look, there are fallen
men. But it's all just a game. A re-enactment for the anniversary of a Civil War battle.
The uniforms and even the weapons are authentic. Only the bullets are fake. Except for
one, which plows through the wooden side of the grandstand. Just missing the head of
Senator Kendall Whatley. Was it an accident? An attack? Maybe even an act of
terrorism? Special Agents Jeremiah Cotton and Philippa Decker are put on the case. They
soon find out that not all of the residents of Perryville take kindly to the senator. So they
decide to give the perpetrator an opportunity to strike again - the great ball at the end of
the anniversary festivities, where everyone will be dressed in historical garb ...

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